Steve Lonegan

Steven Mark "Steve" Lonegan (27 April 1956-) was the Mayor of Bogota, New Jersey from 1 January 1996 to 31 December 2007, succeeding Leonard Nicolosi and preceding Pat McHale. In 2013, he was the Republican nominee during the US Senate special election in New Jersey, which he lost to Democratic nominee Cory Booker by 54.9% to 44%.

Biography
Steven Mark Lonegan was born in Teaneck, Bergen County, New Jersey in 1956, and he ran a custom home building business and a cabinet-making business before being elected Mayor of Bogota in 1995. He served until 2007, and he served as New Jersey State Director and Senior Policy Analyst for Americans for Prosperity from 2007 to 2013. In 2005 and 2009, he was an unsuccessful Republican gubernatorial primary candidate, but he won the Republican primary for the US Senate special election in 2013. He carried Sussex, Warren, Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Monmouth, Ocean, Salem, and Cape May Counties, but he won only 44% of the vote to Democratic candidate Cory Booker's 54.9%, losing the election. In 2015, he chaired Ted Cruz's unsuccessful presidential primary campaign in New Jersey.